Athletics
President Warren Candler started Emory's first intramural sports program in 1897, although he was strongly against intercollegiate sports programs. During these years, Emory had intramural football, baseball, and gymnastic teams. For most of history, Emory did not have an athletic mascot. In 1960, The Emory Wheel sports editor thought it was time to adopt a mascot, but the student body was not interested. Frustrated, he arbitrarily adopted the eagle as the mascot because "the name simply applicable and obvious decorative advantages." Soon thereafter, Oxford followed and adopted the eagle as the mascot.
Today, Oxford's athletic teams are members of the Georgia Junior College Athletic Association and the National Junior College Athletic Association. Oxford College sponsors women's soccer, men's basketball, and men's and women's tennis. The men's tennis team won back-to-back NJCAA III National Championships in 2006 and 2007 and a third in 2009, and the women's tennis team won National Championships in 2011.
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